Don Pornaras
Site Reliability Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolDon Pornaras is a Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building and optimizing large-scale backend and SRE systems at Google and Amazon, blending a mechanical engineering foundation with advanced software skills. He focuses on canary analysis, release engineering, monitoring/alerting, and data pruning, and has shipped performance and resource-efficiency improvements across Play Ads serving and Cloudtop systems using Python, C++, Go, SQL, and protobuf. Don’s background in mechatronics and research (including published metamaterials work and autonomous vehicle integration) gives him a practical systems-thinking approach and a knack for applying optimization and simulation techniques to production problems. Known for steady performance under pressure, he reliably drives complex projects end-to-end and builds tooling and tests that improve forecasting confidence and operational reliability. Based in San Jose, he combines hands-on coding with cross-disciplinary engineering experience, making him adept at bridging hardware-rooted intuition and cloud-native software reliability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering Mechatronics Robotics Automation Engineering Automotive Engineering and Design, Mechanical Engineering Mechatronics Robotics Automation Engineering Automotive Engineering and Design at San José State UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyEvergreen Valley High
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
san10
occupancy-grid-map10
ros10
jose10
robotics9
academia9
packaging9
compiler-design9
autonomous-vehicles9
autonomous-driving9
operating-system9
ros-driver9
concurrency8
python8
science8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
drofp/helloWorld
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 4 months
drofp/AlgosPractice
Mar 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:24 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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